“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by pprotas on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:18AM (#49623600)

Musk probably drew it himself

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by xd1936 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:13AM (#49625240)

U+1D54F, MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X

https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9D%95%8F

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by tidbeck on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:14AM (#49624067)

He took it from a tweet https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1683310992493608960

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by pferde on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:40AM (#49624288)

Wasn't it basically the X11 window system logo?

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by LocalH on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:43AM (#49624309)

It's confusingly similar (by the "average person" metric( but I don't think it's identical

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by bluebarbet on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:12AM (#49624545)

The average person has absolutely never heard of X11.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by Brian_K_White on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:26AM (#49625429)

The average person has absolutely no need to know what X11 is to compare the visual appearance of 2 images.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by LocalH on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:04PM (#49650158)

Buc-ee's has won infringement suits against far less confusing logos.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by z500 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:02AM (#49625871)

It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by erk__ on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:21AM (#49623634)

$ \mathbb{X} $

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by 7bit on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:31AM (#49623698)

I don't think he'd be able to come up with this.

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Re:“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain by LocalH on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:44AM (#49624319)

Musk probably came across the shape as a child and drew it on a napkin to carry it with him, like he did with the Cybertruck design after "beating" Car Designer on either the Apple II or PC

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